From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Apr 15 3:31:32 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from webmail.emre.de (webmail.emre.de [194.8.203.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD23D37B405 for ; Mon, 15 Apr 2002 03:31:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from www@localhost) by webmail.emre.de (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g3FAVQt07132 for freebsd-isp@freebsd.org; Mon, 15 Apr 2002 12:31:27 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from info@emre.de) X-Authentication-Warning: webmail.emre.de: www set sender to info@emre.de using -f Received: from 194.8.193.125 ( [194.8.193.125]) as user emre@webmail.emre.de by webmail.emre.de with HTTP; Mon, 15 Apr 2002 12:31:25 +0200 Message-ID: <1018866685.3cbaabfda3405@webmail.emre.de> Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 12:31:25 +0200 From: Emre Bastuz To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Wrong drive Geometry with IBM Deskstar + Tyan Mainboard ? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) 3.0 X-Originating-IP: 194.8.193.125 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, I´ve just been trying to setup FreeBSD 4.5 on hardware consisting of a Tyan Thunder LE-T mainboard and an IBM IDE harddisk with 40 GIG. When I boot off CD, I can do the installation and everything seems fine. When I do a reboot, the system hangs. Even if I do have a bootable CD inserted, the systems tries to boot from harddisk (first boot device is CD) and stops with no messages on the screen. No prompt. Nothing. Just something in the upper left corner of the monitor that resembles a cursor. Does anyone have an idea why: - the bootable CD is being ignored ? - why the installation works but the boot process does not even start ? - how I can fix this ? Maybe this has something to do with the drive geometry - when I start the installation, fdisk complains about "79780/16/63" being not a a valid geometry and choses to use "5005/255/63" instead. Hmmm ... Thanks and regards, Emre -- Emre Bastuz info@emre.de http://www.emre.de UIN: 561260 PGP Key ID: 0xAFAC77FD ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message